Dornier 328eco roll out

[Cessnaflyer]

I don’t know if I’d go for “amazing”…if could have been. Absolutely smashing flight deck, fast, went high, etc.

However, it was a nightmare at QX. Simple things…like, it had only one set of nav lights (that constantly burnt out). Terrible MEL manual, and a German company that didn’t see any reason to work with a launch customer.

There’s a reason why it lasted only a short time out west.

And the story of how they ended up with them in the first place.

 

[Richman]

And the story of how they ended up with them in the first place.

Along those same lines, the biggest, bullshattiest story ever told to pilots by management is "Oh, we just can't get the airplanes".

 

[Cessnaflyer]

Along those same lines, the biggest, bullshattiest story ever told to pilots by management is "Oh, we just can't get the airplanes".

Unless you are Southwest waiting on the Max 7

 

[ppragman]

Single-pilot capability with those avionics "in limited circumstances," evidently.

That aside, this is still cool.

Single-pilot you say? I'm now fully erect.

 

[derg]

Single-pilot you say? I'm now fully erect.

I hate to admit it, but flying alone sounds amazing.

 

[ppragman]

I hate to admit it, but flying alone sounds amazing.

Looking back at my unfortunately foreshortened career and with perhaps more life experience, I think it was amazing. With the hindsight of 4 years out of the cockpit now I think that doing most of my flying single pilot was the absolute best decision I could have made. I just don't "get" other people. Maybe I'm weird - that's fine - I am weird, but for better or worse, I think the best thing I could have done was to fly by myself. I learned that early on.

I flew with a crew occasionally, I think out of the 7500tt I finished with (and over 10,000 landings when I totaled my log book a few years ago), maybe 1200 hrs of it was spent with as CA, FO, or check airman? Most of that was as an FO early in my career with the rest scattered here and there throughout the rest of it. There were a lot of guys I really loved flying with, there were a lot I didn't.

Flying by yourself is amazing. After that, I think it's better to be a check airman, after that it's better to be a captain of a crew, and after that all the way at the bottom is being an FO. Watching someone do the wrong thing and having to play psychoanalyst to figure out how to get them to do the right thing in the heat of the moment exhausts me in a way that all the triple-mailers and fishboxes never could.

 

[juxtapilot]

This thing is might be a game changer for inter-island flying in Asia… ATR and Q400 is often too much airplane.

 

[ahw01]

This thing is might be a game changer for inter-island flying in Asia… ATR and Q400 is often too much airplane.

Twin Otter helloooo

 

[Cessnaflyer]

I hate to admit it, but flying alone sounds amazing.

I do miss 121 flying occasionally but this makes me happy I landed at an amazing 91 group. Last week we drove 18 hours to see the flight 9 launch and had a nice airbnb to view it from. This week is the South of France for a week with some great national park and culinary tours lined up.